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# Pet Rent Is the Newest Tool of Housing Discrimination
- URL: https://werd.io/pet-rent-is-the-newest-tool-of-housing-discrimination/
- Published: 2022-07-06T16:51:30.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-06T16:51:30.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“To no one’s surprise, the burden falls heaviest on those least able to bear it. In a recent paper, “Pet Friendly For Whom?” Jennifer W. Applebaum, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Florida and data researcher Kevin Horecka, Ph.D., reported the results of their survey of pet friendly housing across Texas. The conclusion was stark: “Low-income communities and communities of color were more likely than higher income and predominantly white communities to pay disproportionately higher fees to keep pets in their homes.””

\[[Link](https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/07/06/pet-rent-is-the-newest-tool-of-housing-discrimination/)\]